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More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2025, 03:44 PM by sleeppoor | |
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Armed clashes set off by a century-old border dispute mark the worst fighting in decades between Thailand and Cambodia. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2025, 03:22 PM by sleeppoor | |
[just here for the headline] | |
Submitted at 07-25-2025, 01:28 PM by B. Weed | |
Our study reveals that the extreme morphologies seen in animals such as treehoppers may increase their sensitivity to electrical stimuli. We show that treehoppers can likely detect the electric fields of their predators and that sufficient electrostatic information exists in the ecology of treehoppers that they may even distinguish these predators from friendly bees using electrical cues alone. This introduces a level of sophistication not previously ascribed to the electrostatic sense. Furthermore, by demonstrating that the extreme morphology of treehoppers increases the strength of electric field stimuli around these animals, we suggest that the enigmatic function of their spectacular pronota is partly as an electroreceptor and that natural selection for increased electrical sensitivity may have contributed to their diverse evolution. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 06:18 PM by sleeppoor | |
A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2025, 01:30 AM by sleeppoor | |
Tech industry hotshots are speaking out after a prominent OpenAI investor appeared to have a ChatGPT-induced mental health breakdown. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2025, 12:31 AM by B. Weed | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 06:26 PM by sleeppoor | |
A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 05:05 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 05:02 PM by sleeppoor | |
Chuck Mangione, the Rochester jazz legend who created hits like "Feels So Good", has died, his attorney confirmed. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 04:47 PM by sleeppoor | |
It's not a great precedent, that's for sure. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 09:31 AM by sleeppoor | |
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.
Medics were dispatched to the WWE icon's Clearwater, Florida home early Thursday morning ... with operators stating it was regarding a "cardiac arrest." | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 04:47 PM by Torture the Artist | |
POO, the short form of the new name for fare inspectors on Toronto’s transit service, TTC, sparks jokes. Boys react to taking the blame. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 02:31 PM by NickNoheart | |
I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on us—and how Silicon Valley companies have systematically designed and deployed AI products onto their existing platforms in an effort to accelerate adoption.
It also happens to be the subject of a new study by design scholars Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon, and Thomas Thibault, who looked at hundreds of instances of how AI has been deployed, highlighted, and advertised by Google, Meta, Adobe, SnapChat, and others, and analyzed them for a study called “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability.” They also present the results in a handy guide, with illustrated examples called, aptly: “How tech companies are pushing us to use AI.” (It’s translated from the French, hence the sometimes awkward phrasings.) | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 12:33 PM by Wreckard | |
Submitted at 07-24-2025, 08:42 AM by B. Weed | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 09:34 PM by sleeppoor | |
Powerhouse attorney Roy Black, who defended Jeffrey Epstein and William Kennedy Smith, is dead at 80. He’s remembered as a legal giant. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 09:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday.
Officials have repeatedly pointed to video surveillance of the brazen escape, one of the largest jailbreaks in recent U.S. history, and vowed to bring the inmates to justice. A 10th inmate, Derrick Groves, a convicted killer, is the lone fugitive still on the run.
“Everyone is entitled to due process. But there’s a video of these detainees running out of the jail in the middle of the night. They were not heading to court hearings,” Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Wednesday. ”We will continue to hold everyone accountable for the escape.” | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 08:09 PM by NickNoheart | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 06:50 PM by DamnHead | |
Law enforcement reported finding the female chimp in a cage on Tonia Haddix’s property on July 9. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2025, 07:36 PM by Wreckard | |

More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.
Armed clashes set off by a century-old border dispute mark the worst fighting in decades between Thailand and Cambodia.
[just here for the headline]
Our study reveals that the extreme morphologies seen in animals such as treehoppers may increase their sensitivity to electrical stimuli. We show that treehoppers can likely detect the electric fields of their predators and that sufficient electrostatic information exists in the ecology of treehoppers that they may even distinguish these predators from friendly bees using electrical cues alone. This introduces a level of sophistication not previously ascribed to the electrostatic sense. Furthermore, by demonstrating that the extreme morphology of treehoppers increases the strength of electric field stimuli around these animals, we suggest that the enigmatic function of their spectacular pronota is partly as an electroreceptor and that natural selection for increased electrical sensitivity may have contributed to their diverse evolution.
A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.
Tech industry hotshots are speaking out after a prominent OpenAI investor appeared to have a ChatGPT-induced mental health breakdown.
A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.
Chuck Mangione, the Rochester jazz legend who created hits like "Feels So Good", has died, his attorney confirmed.
It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71 years old, TMZ Sports has learned.
Medics were dispatched to the WWE icon's Clearwater, Florida home early Thursday morning ... with operators stating it was regarding a "cardiac arrest."
POO, the short form of the new name for fare inspectors on Toronto’s transit service, TTC, sparks jokes. Boys react to taking the blame.
I do not think it will shock anyone to learn that big tech is aggressively pushing AI products. But the extent to which they have done so might. The sheer ubiquity of AI means that we take for ground the countless ways, many invisible, that these products and features are foisted on us—and how Silicon Valley companies have systematically designed and deployed AI products onto their existing platforms in an effort to accelerate adoption.
It also happens to be the subject of a new study by design scholars Nolwenn Maudet, Anaëlle Beignon, and Thomas Thibault, who looked at hundreds of instances of how AI has been deployed, highlighted, and advertised by Google, Meta, Adobe, SnapChat, and others, and analyzed them for a study called “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability.” They also present the results in a handy guide, with illustrated examples called, aptly: “How tech companies are pushing us to use AI.” (It’s translated from the French, hence the sometimes awkward phrasings.)
Powerhouse attorney Roy Black, who defended Jeffrey Epstein and William Kennedy Smith, is dead at 80. He’s remembered as a legal giant.
Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape charges on Wednesday.
Officials have repeatedly pointed to video surveillance of the brazen escape, one of the largest jailbreaks in recent U.S. history, and vowed to bring the inmates to justice. A 10th inmate, Derrick Groves, a convicted killer, is the lone fugitive still on the run.
“Everyone is entitled to due process. But there’s a video of these detainees running out of the jail in the middle of the night. They were not heading to court hearings,” Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Wednesday. ”We will continue to hold everyone accountable for the escape.”
Law enforcement reported finding the female chimp in a cage on Tonia Haddix’s property on July 9.